AHA! (or if Hamlet was alive in the 21st Ct. and was Sudanese)

by Omukuvah Otido                                                    Download pdf ~ epub ~ mobi- True, Horatio -In certain dialectic planeswhere thesis morphs with antithesis lovers eagerly forsake visasto tiger economies and sky-scraped landsfor the sake of loveand tar dark offspringin …

Trapped

by Margaret Muthee                                                        Download pdf ~ epub ~ mobiHow did this happen? My life has been reduced to eating, reading, sleeping, hours with a shrink and some god damn music therapy session. I lie on a slim bed staring at the high white ceiling that seems to echo my screams every time I exhale. This usually is most of the …

Home

by Peter Ngila                                                                      Download pdf ~ epub ~ mobi   When everybody is looking up and the sun’s lips are about to connect with the moon’s in a kiss, and when the clouds are all smiling, Buda slaps me hard on the cheeks. The piece of glass I’m holding slides onto the ground and shatters into uncountable pieces. I shake …

Swoop

By Stephen Derwent Partington                                        Download pdf, mobi, epubGripping, swung, the eagle hungupended on a Weaver’s nest,its talons curled, a potter’s palms,hooked beak inside the entrance.Wings, the panic of the colony,the hatchling snatched and dead,one nest left swingingwith the shaking of a …

Interview with Tom Jalio Winner of BNPA2014

Download pdf, epub, mobi  Tom Jalio is a Kenyan poet, editor, runner, and winner of the BN Poetry Award 2014. You can follow him on Twitter for updates on his life @tjalio Recently, we got a chance to have a chat with him, about winning the BNPA, his writing, and his life as a runner. …

I’m Unlike My Mother

By Liz Leppy                                                                  Download pdf, epub, mobi Her wild radiant smile still sits there where nobody expects.Spectacular-She trucks through the empty, abandoned routeHer hope carried in a broken vaseThere comes a tear, struck from my hungry eyesI tried plucking strength from my weeded heartI triedBut she is different-I’m speechless, she wears a language …